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April 12, 2008

deep structure

Filed under: cherry bomb, photography — ABRAXAS @ 3:13 pm

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6 Responses to “deep structure”

  1. Stella Says:
    April 13th, 2008 at 1:54 pm

    i ’something’ this lots.

    pardon the inept articulation, but the ’something’ is something good!

  2. O~* Says:
    April 13th, 2008 at 9:31 pm

    thanks, st*lla! this is the taalmonument - a homage to the afrikaans language… that’s possibly why you have no words ;)

  3. cecilia Says:
    April 14th, 2008 at 9:51 am

    as jy “patriotic” is en jy “mix” nie jou tale soos ek nie kan jy net dalk hoendervleis kry as jy kyk na hierdie foto…

  4. Stella Says:
    April 14th, 2008 at 2:57 pm

    thank you, O! ;)

    translation please, Cecilia?

  5. cecilia Says:
    April 15th, 2008 at 8:57 am

    translated: if i was still a patriotic afrikaner who does not mix languages all the time, this photo (monument of the afrikaans language) would have probably made the hairs on my skin rise…

  6. O~* Says:
    April 15th, 2008 at 8:39 pm

    i got shivers there, entirely *because* i am not patriotic, c! it was incredible that something like this could be commissioned. the plaque with the rationale explained that the entire thing was supposed to represent graphically (that is, as a 3-d graph) the contributions of various “races” (dutch, german etc) to the development of afrikaans. the monumentality, the immovability of the entire structure ensconced there on top of a hill with a 360 degree command of the surrounding countryside was so terribly tangible as a metaphor for the implacable world view which gave rise to it.

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